have your children paint with toy bulldozers or use craft
sticks like bulldozers. Just have them push finger paint around on their paper,
to make a creation.

Blueprints

Submitted by Ketura

What You Need:

Blue Paper

White Colored Pencils/Crayons

Rulers

What You Do:

Provide your children
with the materials along with some real blueprints to look at. Then let them
create their own blueprints

Idea:

Provide as many different construction vehicles as possible.
Let you children make tire prints (roll vehicle through paint and then on paper)
on their paper

Marshmallow Building

Submitted by Polly

What You Need:

Marshmallows

Toothpicks

What You Do:

Allow your children to
design and then build a building using marshmallows and toothpicks

Idea:

Tape different color crayons to the back of construction
vehicles. Let your children draw on paper by driving the vehicles

Stepping Stones

Submitted by Tina

What You Need:

Quick Crete

Glitter, Small Rocks,
etc.

Small Pails

What You Do:

This is an incredibly
cute, easy, unique and wonderful gift for your parents. Simply spray the pail
with Cookie Spray. Then have a child put in what they want in the bottom of
the bucket (small pebbles, jewels, glitter etc.) Finally mix some Quick Crete
(Only mix amount needed for a couple of stones at a time, so that you insure
that it does not dry too quickly) and pour it into the pail. Let it dry for
a few days. Then turn the pail over. Use your hand to hold the stone and gently
tap the pail until the stone comes free. All of my parents Loved Them!

Popsicle Stick Building

Submitted by
Debby

What You Need:

Popsicle Sticks

Glue

Paper

Paint

What You Do:

After talking about buildings.
Give your children the materials and let them create a building on their paper
using Popsicle sticks. Then let them paint their house, to look like their own
house or like they would want their house to look like.